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It was a night I’ll never forget. It was a night nobody in Scotland will ever forget. Twenty years ago today, Pan-Am Flight 103, a Boeing 747 carrying 259 people from Heathrow to JFK, was blown out of the sky above the Scottish borders town of Lockerbie, killing 270 people in total.
I was [...]
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I was a wee bit tired this morning but managed to force myself out my nest. As I sat with my coffee reading my morning email with BBC News 24 playing quietly in my office, dawn broke. It was the most amazing display of pink, yellow, white and blue across the sky I’ve seen [...]
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I’ve been thinking about my NaNoWriMo effort last month, and the reasons why I never managed it. Compared to previous years I didn’t enjoy the experience this time – not because I never made 50k – I never made the 50k was because I wasn’t enjoying it.
This morning I feel able to continue work [...]
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Today was THE longest day. And now everything – all my plans and hopes – have fallen apart. Nothing has gone to plan as the month progressed, and November looks like it is going to end in tatters.
My plan, as you know, had been to take care of the day job and leave [...]
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I’m still feeling upturned and out of sync; not fatigued or procrastinational (?), just … weird … grumpy. It’s a mental thing and I’m still not sure what the root of it is. Hard to explain really. I suspect an electric shock or some form of re-jig of the portions of my brain might [...]
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It’s been a pretty bad couple of days. Buggering my ankle wasn’t the best thing to happen, especially after the problems I’ve had with my right leg this year. It’s just been one thing after another – one very painful thing after another.
I’ve written very little, which has only served to worsen my mood. [...]
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Saturday
I fell asleep watching an episode of The West Wing last night, and only found out about it when Gail woke me up at 4:30am to remove my glasses and turn the TV off. Knackered? I was exhausted.
The upside was that I slept until midday, as did Gail, with nobody else [...]
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I wanted to complete my daily NaNo quota early to keep me on track today, and I did just that. I knew I would have no other time today other than between 5am and 7am, what with a night out in the evening and a busy day scheduled, so I’m happy to report [...]
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Those 5,100 words yesterday didn’t half take their toll on me, particularly since 4,000 of them were written last night. When you’ve become so involved in the story that there’s a rush of inspiration, and therefore words, you end up going to bed with your head buzzing and firing ideas and thoughts in all [...]
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I felt really good today. Good about the novel, good about my submissions, and good about life. Talk about the ups and downs of writing a novel? Man, I’ve been all over the place this November; bi-polar moods day by day; all to be expected though but I’ve never been quite so “swinging” during [...]
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Frustration was the word of the day; frustration with how everything changed slightly and yet had such a big impact on my plans. To start with, I missed the bus by 30 seconds because I left my sandwiches in the house and had to run back to get them. A good start, which [...]
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I couldn’t sleep last night, and today I paid the price; heavy eyes and a grumpiness not seen since someone stole Stig of the Dump’s toilet seat. I wish that life could be simpler sometimes, but despite all I do to try and make that happen, things only seem to get more complicated.
I’ve [...]
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By 10.15pm tonight I’d written approximately 200 words of Blood Ties and was growing mightily tired with the whole damn NaNo thing. Lennox was sitting on his arse in a pub talking to this lassie who just has to be one of the worst characters I’ve ever drummed up.
So, fuck it, I thought. If [...]
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Thursday …
I can’t believe I slept in this morning. I should never have stayed up so late reading Rankin’s new book, Doors Open. Serves me right, and it knocked me right off my plans for the day. I had wanted to have written my NaNo quota before I left for work, as it [...]
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